NJ's Hispanic Chamber looks for chief
Tuesday January 3, 2012, 5:49 PM
BY HUGH R. MORLEY
STAFF WRITER
The Record
The Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey, the state's leading voice for Hispanic businesses, has lost its co-founder and only president, Daniel H. Jara, who has resigned after 22 years for health reasons.
The Newark-based organization will be led by interim president, Peter A. Aquino, an accountant from Paramus, while the agency mounts a six-month search for a permanent head.
Jara, of Hackensack, 63, helped found the chamber in 1989, helping it become a prominent advocate for Latino businesses, and one that carried clout in Trenton. The organization, which has one other employee, counts among its financial supporters such corporate names as Johnson & Johnson, Nestle, Pepsi and Shoprite, according to its website.
Jara, who has spinal muscular atrophy, a genetic motor neuron disease, has used a wheelchair since he suffered complications related to back surgery in 1982. He had been in and out of hospital in recent months, and lately had difficulty speaking, said Aquino ...
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